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what would you offer as an alternative explanation?

• tshaddox 4y ago
  That unfamiliar language usage sounds more complicated or embellished simply because it’s unfamiliar.
  • LAC-Tech 4y ago
    I disagree. We rarely have that reaction to obscure accents of dialects of English we're unfamiliar with. Usually the instinct is to laugh or belittle. Yet we hear this and we all know instinctively that it's a higher form than what we currently speak. Surely there's a reason for that.
    • cholantesh 4y ago
      Because of their association to period dramas and high culture.